Yay, thanks for posting this! It’s really great that Andy got to do this spot for the Winnipeg Humane Society. Locally, if you’d already seen his ads for Kern-Hill Furniture, you’d know him immediately.

Ah, Kern-Hill Furniture Co-op, how I miss your insane low-budget mid-seventies commercials. Andy’s dad used to do them just like this, but under a ten/twenty gallon hat, wearing… interesting suit jackets and bolo ties and way more ad-lib. I don’t watch tv any more but these tv spots are up there with Hinterland Who’s Who (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-aoWSpFor0) and The Log Driver’s Waltz (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upsZZ2s3xv8). What fun.

For those interested in the history behind this, Andy Hill is the Number One Son of Nick Hill, the legendary owner of Kern-Hill Furniture Co-Op, 843 Main Street, here in Winnipeg. This may sound like spam, but I assure you, there is far more to it than this – anyone over the age of about 30 in Winnipeg fondly remembers ads like this one as we grew up: